Now Citrix has for a long time, support for most of the different hypervisors. Meaning that customers gets the flexibility to choose a number of different hypervisors if they are planning to use XenApp/XenDesktop. This support is also included for Netscaler as well. So as of today, Citrix supports XenServer, Hyper-V, Vmware, Amazon, Cloudplatform. As …
This post, is based upon a session I had for a partner in Norway. How can we use Netscaler to optimize web content? Let’s face it, the trends are chaging * Users are becoming less patient (meaging that they demand that applications/services respond quicker. (more then 40% of users drop out if the website takes …
So this is part two of my securing XenApp enviroment, this time I’ve moved my focus to Storefront. Now how does Storefront need to be secured ? In most cases, Storefront is the aggregator that allows clients to connect to a citrix infrastructure. Im most cases the Storefront is located on the internal network and …
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Now I had the pleasure of talking PCI-DSS compliant XenApp enviroment for a customer. Now after working with it for the last couple of days there are lot of usefull information that I thought I would share. Now PCI-DSS compliance is needed for any merchant who accepts credit cards for instance an e-commerce size. Or …
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There is no denying that Microsoft is moving more and more focus into their cloud offerings, even with solution such as Office365, EMS (Enterprise Mobility Suite) and of course their Azure platform. EMS being the latest product bundle in the suite gives customers Intune, Azure Rights Management and Azure Active Directory Premium. So if a …
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Now the last couple of months I’ve again been involved with a Netscaler book project with Packt. This is a more advanced book then my previous book with was a more introduction to Citrix Netscaler. This new book is called Mastering Netscaler which has more in-depth information regarding load balancing, appfirewall and such. But… I …
There’s alot happening lately and therefore there has been a bit quiet here on this blog. But to give a quick update on what’s happening! In february I just recently got confirmation that I am presenting two session at NIC conference (Which is the largest IT event for IT-pros in scandinavia) (nicconf.com) Here I will …
Had a case earlier today where a customer wanted to configure Netscaler to authenticate with UPN instead of SamAccountName. And using UPN instead of SamAccountName makes sense in many cases, since it easier for users to remember their email-address instead of their username. So in this scenario my samAccoutName is msandbu and my UPN is …
Yesterday Citrix announced a Tech Preview of a XenDesktop 7.5 Gallery image for Azure Pack.For those so not familiar with Azure Pack, this is a portal which builds upon System Center (and some other tools) do deliver an Azure-like portal where you can setup some of the features like Azure does. I’ve blogged about it …
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Now I just recently became aware from Twitter that the 10.5 Netscaler monitor for Storefront is not working properly for HTTPS enabled Storefront servers. The problem with the monitor is that it uses an IP based check (and not a hostname based check) which would allow the monitor to work properly since the digital …
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